{stories of a house} making an entrance

{front door and house painted but there's no landing}

I want to share some of the stories of our house with you. It is a little old house in the right location with a huge yard, perfect for a kid. By the right location I mean it's a 3 minute commute for both my husband and I to get to work! When I say perfect for a kid I meant our kid and I was in labour with him when my husband and I saw this house for the first time, back in 2005. It was also my husbands Birthday that day as well, I better mention that too - for the record. So, from the street the house looked okay. Nothing really stood out other than it was a fixer-upper (we had already decided we didn't want a new house, no offence to new home owners but we figured we wouldn't have anything to do with our spare time.)

{you can't even see the front door here with that big shrub there!}

So now we get to the part about the entrance to the house. We could hardly see where the door was from the street! That's not very welcoming, is it? One thing it did have was a rosemary shrub right at the base of the front steps. You can't see the rosemary from that photo but then again you can't see anything with that big tree in the way. I read somewhere that rosemary planted by the front door was to ward of evil and bring good luck to the family - that's cool.

{done - new front porch and garden planted}

The front door steps also had no landing and that's not good for visiting Grandparents that need a little assistance getting up the steps, is it? The old railing and stairs were falling apart so down with the huge bush/tree whatever it is and up with a porch with rails and a landing. I moved the rosemary tree to the new base of the steps (for good luck) and then painted the door bright red! Did you know that red front doors mean "welcome"? The door was red for a long time while the house was still all white. The red sure suck out but we had a plan to paint the house, so we did - but that's another story.

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